The Federal Government disagrees with you. Not completing an I-9 can result in civil and criminal penalties for the employer. There are alternatives to an SSN - but those all provide proof of identity, and either citizenship or legal immigration status (which would also indicate the right to vote).
There are 12.5 million illegal immigrants in the US. In California, they are given a drivers license which is enough to be able to vote.
Calling bullshit right there. You have to be a citizen before you can register to vote. A driver's license doesn't get you on the voter rolls.
Likewise calling BS right there. My wife was a legal immigrant until December 21st, 2017 (she became a citizen) and her CA driver's license did not list immigration status. She was asked if she wanted to register to vote when she first got her license, but she was ethical and did not ask to register, as she stated she was not a citizen and could not vote legally.
I don't live in Missouri, but from what I see Missouri law "requires the state of Missouri to assist voters who might not have a photo ID with the process of obtaining one free Missouri non-driver license for the purpose of voting". Seems if you cannot afford an ID in the State of Missouri, for the purposes of voting the State will get you a free, valid ID. Most States have programs for reduced or free ID cards for those who cannot afford them.
I have serious questions about the quality of the data. I spent 5 years designing scientific SONAR systems and running surveys. Capturing data with proper spatial resolution (including time series/syncing) as well as quality of measurements and maintaining tolerance was crucial. With less than 8% of surface stations having less than 1 deg C accuracy now, how can data precision to three significant digits be claimed? Data should be tossed, OR should only be quoted with appropriate tolerances. If your measurement gear is only good to 2 deg C, then your measurements can be stated to any precision you want - but have to be qualified with the tolerance (12.443 deg C +/- 2 deg).
When the data is invalid, yes - it should be thrown out. What is the accuracy of those measurements? We're always shown accuracy to 0.01 deg or 0.001 deg. Yet the underlying instruments tend to be no more than 0.5 deg accurate. Yes, you can average a bunch of measurements together to get an average value. No, you CANNOT improve the precision of that instrument over what it originally said. So average a dozen measurements, you might be able to say the average is 12.322 deg C; but the tolerance is still 0.5 deg C, meaning the actual value is 11.822 deg C to 12.822 deg C. Kind of changes things when a hundredth - or thousandth - of a degree difference is claimed to make something the "hottest on record"...
The Met, UK's official weather forecasters, state the accuracy of a Stevenson screen is +/- 0.5 deg C. Now, can you explain how you can accurately measure to a higher precision than that? I know, average a lot of screens. Yet each screen is NOT measuring the same thing (they are not co-located nor is the data collected at the same time). It is not valid to add two screens - measuring different weather situations at different times - and claim the resulting accuracy is twice as good. The data still have a half a degree accuracy. Yet we're told that a hundredth of a degree here or there makes something the hottest - or coldest - on record. It's not statistically valid - because the underlying data does not have that precision.
BTC is often touted as a replacement to normal bank fees and transfers. VISA makes most of their money on credit card clearance fees; Wells Fargo does a good amount as well. I'd wager either would stand to lose more than $2 billion per year if normal credit card/bank fees went away...
As far as governments go, imagine a goodly chunk of the US (or German, or Japanese) economy becomes dependent upon blockchain. For a mere $2 billion investment, Iran/North Korea/SPECTRE could destabilize an entire country's economy, potentially affecting the entire world, and make any moves it chooses to make. That's a LOT more power for the dollar than getting a destroyer or two.
Nice! So you can't exchange it for the local currency, but you can use it? How useful is a currency that cannot be exchanged for something useful like rent, food, clothing?
Not for a Government that decided it wanted to "take" a big chunk of currency, or disrupt another economy that has become dependent upon BTC. $2 billion would be chump change...
Heck Wells Fargo made $21 billion in 2016, they could take about 10% of their profit and destroy BTC whenever they choose.
Visa made about $12 billion in operating income; spend $2 billion of that and goodbye BTC...
If anything, having such a low bar to entry, when the private and public institutions that are supposedly threatened by BTC could easily and affordably break the entire system, should put a pause in the BTC hysteria.
$70 trillion in market cap for all publicly traded companies. Bitcoin? $240 billion. Bitcoin is around 0.3% of the market cap of publicly traded companies, I don't think people are rushing from stocks to BTC, and I don't think a BTC crash to $0 would create much of any issue for stocks (other than people trying to jump back in to stocks, to stem their losses from BTC).
I trust you were around during the dot-bomb days of 1999 through 2001? Take a look at the NASDAQ from say, August 1998 to September 2001. You'll see most of the deflation of the dot-com bubble was in 20-30% chunks, and recoveries that only made back half the loss. That was a pop of a big bubble... 6800 to 4900 in 4 months. 6000 to 3600 in 5 months. 4000 to 2500 in 2 months. Then 3000 to 2000 in 3 months. That's a 70% loss in 14 months - all done with 20-30% slides, each time with a small (10-20%) gain preceding the next slide.
About the second point - how to do you get or use the value? Say you're in a nation where the economy crashes - but it is illegal to use BTC (like in China). How do you turn that into a currency you can use? How do you get that currency into the country? How do you pay for things locally?
Just last week, we tossed another $1.5 trillion of debt onto the pile with the new tax cut. How much "faith and credit" do you have in Donald Trump?
Huh, I go to the Federal Government and I see our debt has increased by about $360 million since the passage of the tax reform bill. Nope, not $1.5 trillion! That debt doesn't exist yet, does it?
Well damn! Your company needs to learn about this small organization I use. It's called the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, better known as HSBC. Having an account open in Hong Kong, you can wire money anywhere in the world, with delivery within 1 business day, and the cost is only HKD$100 (about $14.50 US). Any amount, fixed price. In any currency, in and out.
For example, some of my clients pay in RMB, some in USD, some in EUR, some SGD, and so on. I can forex the funds for free, into one single account - or I can pay from any of those accounts into any other currency, like PKR, with zero extra fee or time. So you may me in USD, I pay a supplier in EUR from my USD funds (at today's exchange rate). Another customer in Singapore pays me in SGD, I pay a contractor in Ukraine in UAH from my SGD funds (at today's exchange rate). And then I sweep the entire balance at the end of the day into RMB because I have a large payment coming next week.
International banking is really simple and cheap these days; the only confusion is sometimes your funds may be disbursed across multiple currency accounts, but with free currency exchanges (at the published rates, at time of order of transfer), it's trivial to dump all your funds into a single account.
Gold actually had a finite supply at this time, unless someone has become the mythical alchemist of lore. Bitcoins? No problem - make a new cryptocurrency and start over!
Continuing violations don't start the statute of limitations until the violation has ended. You post hate speech, the limitations clock doesn't start until the post comes down. Meaning the Government can declare all posts under consideration, then once they sift through them - perhaps 7-8 years down the road - decide that your post was "hate speech" and start the clock at that time.
In most States (and with Federal law), the statute of limitations does not start until the date of the incident or discovery of a wrong. That second part - discovery of a wrong - is what can bite you here. Build chemical weapons, hold them in your backyard for 9 years - and then then let the police know. You will NOT be exempted from prosecution because the statute of limitations did not start until you told the police of your offense.
Precisely! Taking cars off the road in exchange for motorcycles is a great thing. Suddenly that 4 lane highway could become a 10 lane bikeway. With better acceleration and braking as well, you can easily increase the highway capacity by a factor of 4 or more. If highway capacity bumped that much - there wouldn't be any rush-hour traffic jams.
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The Federal Government disagrees with you. Not completing an I-9 can result in civil and criminal penalties for the employer. There are alternatives to an SSN - but those all provide proof of identity, and either citizenship or legal immigration status (which would also indicate the right to vote).
That only applies to illegal aliens; legal immigrants get normal-looking driver's licenses.
There are 12.5 million illegal immigrants in the US. In California, they are given a drivers license which is enough to be able to vote.
Calling bullshit right there. You have to be a citizen before you can register to vote. A driver's license doesn't get you on the voter rolls.
Likewise calling BS right there. My wife was a legal immigrant until December 21st, 2017 (she became a citizen) and her CA driver's license did not list immigration status. She was asked if she wanted to register to vote when she first got her license, but she was ethical and did not ask to register, as she stated she was not a citizen and could not vote legally.
How are you working two jobs without a valid SSN?
I don't live in Missouri, but from what I see Missouri law "requires the state of Missouri to assist voters who might not have a photo ID with the process of obtaining one free Missouri non-driver license for the purpose of voting". Seems if you cannot afford an ID in the State of Missouri, for the purposes of voting the State will get you a free, valid ID. Most States have programs for reduced or free ID cards for those who cannot afford them.
I have serious questions about the quality of the data. I spent 5 years designing scientific SONAR systems and running surveys. Capturing data with proper spatial resolution (including time series/syncing) as well as quality of measurements and maintaining tolerance was crucial. With less than 8% of surface stations having less than 1 deg C accuracy now, how can data precision to three significant digits be claimed? Data should be tossed, OR should only be quoted with appropriate tolerances. If your measurement gear is only good to 2 deg C, then your measurements can be stated to any precision you want - but have to be qualified with the tolerance (12.443 deg C +/- 2 deg).
When the data is invalid, yes - it should be thrown out. What is the accuracy of those measurements? We're always shown accuracy to 0.01 deg or 0.001 deg. Yet the underlying instruments tend to be no more than 0.5 deg accurate. Yes, you can average a bunch of measurements together to get an average value. No, you CANNOT improve the precision of that instrument over what it originally said. So average a dozen measurements, you might be able to say the average is 12.322 deg C; but the tolerance is still 0.5 deg C, meaning the actual value is 11.822 deg C to 12.822 deg C. Kind of changes things when a hundredth - or thousandth - of a degree difference is claimed to make something the "hottest on record"...
The Met, UK's official weather forecasters, state the accuracy of a Stevenson screen is +/- 0.5 deg C. Now, can you explain how you can accurately measure to a higher precision than that? I know, average a lot of screens. Yet each screen is NOT measuring the same thing (they are not co-located nor is the data collected at the same time). It is not valid to add two screens - measuring different weather situations at different times - and claim the resulting accuracy is twice as good. The data still have a half a degree accuracy. Yet we're told that a hundredth of a degree here or there makes something the hottest - or coldest - on record. It's not statistically valid - because the underlying data does not have that precision.
BTC is often touted as a replacement to normal bank fees and transfers. VISA makes most of their money on credit card clearance fees; Wells Fargo does a good amount as well. I'd wager either would stand to lose more than $2 billion per year if normal credit card/bank fees went away...
As far as governments go, imagine a goodly chunk of the US (or German, or Japanese) economy becomes dependent upon blockchain. For a mere $2 billion investment, Iran/North Korea/SPECTRE could destabilize an entire country's economy, potentially affecting the entire world, and make any moves it chooses to make. That's a LOT more power for the dollar than getting a destroyer or two.
I thought the missing heat (that which caused the pause for most of the first part of this millennia) was accumulating in the ocean...
Nice! So you can't exchange it for the local currency, but you can use it? How useful is a currency that cannot be exchanged for something useful like rent, food, clothing?
Zero employees? I guess Amsterdam isn't part of the Netherlands. Likewise Eemshaven and Groningen where Google has a EUR600 million datacenter. And Google does pay tax on gross income (not revenue); I assume you take all legally available deductions yourself?
So known, trusted entities who will do the ledger maintenance for us. Isn't that what a bank does?
Not for a Government that decided it wanted to "take" a big chunk of currency, or disrupt another economy that has become dependent upon BTC. $2 billion would be chump change...
Heck Wells Fargo made $21 billion in 2016, they could take about 10% of their profit and destroy BTC whenever they choose.
Visa made about $12 billion in operating income; spend $2 billion of that and goodbye BTC...
If anything, having such a low bar to entry, when the private and public institutions that are supposedly threatened by BTC could easily and affordably break the entire system, should put a pause in the BTC hysteria.
$70 trillion in market cap for all publicly traded companies. Bitcoin? $240 billion. Bitcoin is around 0.3% of the market cap of publicly traded companies, I don't think people are rushing from stocks to BTC, and I don't think a BTC crash to $0 would create much of any issue for stocks (other than people trying to jump back in to stocks, to stem their losses from BTC).
I trust you were around during the dot-bomb days of 1999 through 2001? Take a look at the NASDAQ from say, August 1998 to September 2001. You'll see most of the deflation of the dot-com bubble was in 20-30% chunks, and recoveries that only made back half the loss. That was a pop of a big bubble... 6800 to 4900 in 4 months. 6000 to 3600 in 5 months. 4000 to 2500 in 2 months. Then 3000 to 2000 in 3 months. That's a 70% loss in 14 months - all done with 20-30% slides, each time with a small (10-20%) gain preceding the next slide.
About the second point - how to do you get or use the value? Say you're in a nation where the economy crashes - but it is illegal to use BTC (like in China). How do you turn that into a currency you can use? How do you get that currency into the country? How do you pay for things locally?
No need for either; with his cranium so firmly rectally implanted, he's already shown he has the flexibility needed for his promised meal...
Showing up with a diamond ring or bracelet may get some attention of ladies; Beanie Babies and MtG cards? Not so much...
Just last week, we tossed another $1.5 trillion of debt onto the pile with the new tax cut. How much "faith and credit" do you have in Donald Trump?
Huh, I go to the Federal Government and I see our debt has increased by about $360 million since the passage of the tax reform bill. Nope, not $1.5 trillion! That debt doesn't exist yet, does it?
Well damn! Your company needs to learn about this small organization I use. It's called the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, better known as HSBC. Having an account open in Hong Kong, you can wire money anywhere in the world, with delivery within 1 business day, and the cost is only HKD$100 (about $14.50 US). Any amount, fixed price. In any currency, in and out.
For example, some of my clients pay in RMB, some in USD, some in EUR, some SGD, and so on. I can forex the funds for free, into one single account - or I can pay from any of those accounts into any other currency, like PKR, with zero extra fee or time. So you may me in USD, I pay a supplier in EUR from my USD funds (at today's exchange rate). Another customer in Singapore pays me in SGD, I pay a contractor in Ukraine in UAH from my SGD funds (at today's exchange rate). And then I sweep the entire balance at the end of the day into RMB because I have a large payment coming next week.
International banking is really simple and cheap these days; the only confusion is sometimes your funds may be disbursed across multiple currency accounts, but with free currency exchanges (at the published rates, at time of order of transfer), it's trivial to dump all your funds into a single account.
Gold actually had a finite supply at this time, unless someone has become the mythical alchemist of lore. Bitcoins? No problem - make a new cryptocurrency and start over!
Continuing violations don't start the statute of limitations until the violation has ended. You post hate speech, the limitations clock doesn't start until the post comes down. Meaning the Government can declare all posts under consideration, then once they sift through them - perhaps 7-8 years down the road - decide that your post was "hate speech" and start the clock at that time.
In most States (and with Federal law), the statute of limitations does not start until the date of the incident or discovery of a wrong. That second part - discovery of a wrong - is what can bite you here. Build chemical weapons, hold them in your backyard for 9 years - and then then let the police know. You will NOT be exempted from prosecution because the statute of limitations did not start until you told the police of your offense.
Precisely! Taking cars off the road in exchange for motorcycles is a great thing. Suddenly that 4 lane highway could become a 10 lane bikeway. With better acceleration and braking as well, you can easily increase the highway capacity by a factor of 4 or more. If highway capacity bumped that much - there wouldn't be any rush-hour traffic jams.